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The Fremont Bridge in Portland, Oregon from the east end. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/ca

I had a Glorious Vino con Vista Weekend in Portland Oregon. “The Rose City” has so many charming and distinctive residential neighborhoods with beautiful parks, gardens and bridges. It reminds of Chicago!!

I loved the historic architecture, magnificent bridges and beautiful fountains. The culinary scene has world-famous food carts and plenty of outstanding farm-to-table and sea-to-fork chefs.

The area is brimming with wineries and breweries. There are spectacular annual festivals and events like FEAST Portland (www.feastportland.com) with 100 chefs and 40 events in September.

Foodies will swoon over Happy Hour in Portland with Food and Drink Specials all over own! If you want the best Vino con Vista in town, go to the Portland City Grill on the 30th floor of the US Bank Tower at 111 S. Fifth Street where you can see the entire city of Portland. www.portlandcitygrill.com

City Hall of Portland, Oregon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

US Bancorp Tower in Portland, Oregon:“Willamette Week voters ranked Portland City Grill first place in the following categories: “Best New Hometown Restaurant” (2002), “Best Restaurant to Bring Friends from Out of Town” (2004), “Best Meat Market” (2005), and “Best Happy Hour” (2004–2007). I’d say it’s a WINNER!!!

The Portland area is blessed with cupcake and donut artisans, micro-brewers and passionate wine-makers. Who can resist the daily flavors at Cupcake Jones? Don’t cupcakes and Pinot Noir make a great couple?

Foodies love Portland Oregon

Foodies love Portland Oregon

Portland is wedged between a Pinot Noir Wine Tourism mecca and an incredible pristine coastline with scenic beaches. Furthermore, there is no sales tax in this culinary and shopping Wonderland!

The Fremont Bridge across the Willamette River in Portland in the U.S.

Portland is cloaked with charming monuments like the Shang Dynasty bronze elephants in North Park. I wish I had more time in Portland; I would have loved to get a panoramic vista on that Aerial Tram.

The White Stag Sign, in Portland, Oregon, at night, showing the wording it began displaying in late November 2010. The 1940-built sign was designated a Portland landmark by the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission in 1977. During the Christmas and holiday season, a simulated “red nose” (of neon) is turned on, in imitation of the character, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bridges over the Willamette River comprise a majority of the notable bridges in the city. Portland has 12 bridges that span the Willamette, while only two road bridges cross the Columbia River, and other notable bridges cross roads, canyons or other bodies of water. Interstate 5 crosses the Willamette via the Marquam Bridge and the Columbia via the Interstate Bridge.

The bridge has two decks carrying vehicular traffic, each with four lanes. The upper deck is signed westbound on US 30 and southbound on I-405. The lower deck is signed eastbound on US 30 and northbound on I-405.

There are so many adventures waiting for you there: Oregon Zoo, Portland Children’s Museum, World Forestry Center, Hoyt Arboretum, Portland Japanese Garden, International Rose Test Garden and all of the park space in between.

Washington Park is one of the oldest parks in Portland. In 1871, the City purchased the original forty acres of land from Amos King, an early developer who bought over 500 acres of land west of the city, for $32,634. The City designated this land “City Park,” despite its relative distance from the central city of the time. The park had few roads and was a wilderness area thick with brush, trees, and roaming cougars that discouraged access and daily use of the park. With ample green space surrounding Portland, limited improvements to City Park were not made until the early 1880s.

For a fantastic Oregon Vino con Vista, check out Oregon Wines on Broadway. I loved this little wine shop on Broadway in downtown Portland. Visit www.oregonwinesonbroadway.com . They have a great selection of Oregon Wines.

Phil Crozier, Paz Levinson and Patricio Tapia tasted 99 wines from the Uco Valley sub-regions of Altamira and Gualtallary, with 12 Outstanding and 37 Highly Recommended. Originally published in the October 2017 issue of Decanter magazine Wines from the sub-regions of Gualtallary and Altamira, including 12 rated Outstanding... The post Top Uco Valley sub-regi […]

We reveal the wines that have won the prestigious Best in Show award at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2019. Full results for DWWA 2019 will be announced on 28 May. Of the more than 16,500 wines tasted, only 50 (0.3%) received the esteemed Best in Show medal. Coming soon: Full DWWA 2019 results will be available, with tasting notes, from 28 May Scroll down […]